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I'm a senior English and French major in college in Minnesota. I've loved cooking since I was a wee young thing, and living in Paris for 6 months only encouraged it! I'm thinking about going to cooking school after graduation, although to what end I just don't know...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The girl with one left shoe

Hello and happy Tuesday! I'm currently blogging from the bathroom (hooray for WiFi) while I wait for my shower water to heat up. Yesterday was wonderful in terms of eats and movies, which makes it an A+ day in my book.

Last night before dinner, I had a glass of white wine as I caught up on the blogs. I wasn't a huge fan of it, so I sipped one glass throughout the course of a few hours.

My parents prepared a wonderful meal, starting out with a loaf of the first bread that my dad and I ever made together (way back when): Anadama bread.

In case you're not familiar with Anadama bread, the history is as follows (courtesy of The Food Timeline):

We all split an avocado, which was drizzled with tangerine vinegar, salt & pepper:

The house is being painted, so we had a cozy TV dinner while we watched Midnight. Oh, go see this now... Claudette Colbert is lovely and funny (and plays a girl from Indiana!), and it takes place in Paris.And then came the desserts. There's a small bakery in the West Village, Patisserie Claude, that my dad sometimes stops at to pick up tasty treats for us. "Tasty treats" is the understatement of understatements, by the way.

Chocolate chestnut cake:

Cappuccino mousse with brulée topping:

Apple tarte tatin:

Heaven, pure and simple. We split each dessert three ways.

When I got home, Ari was finished with work so we decided to make it a movie night (part II, for me). We watched Atlantic City, with Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon (and Wally Shawn in a cameo as a waiter). It's gritty, grimy, and wonderful.

This morning I had another PB&J breakfast cookie. It started off as a peace sign but ended up looking more like a flower...

I had a large coffee with skim on the subway; it was too much liquid for me so early in the morning (well... at 11 AM) so I only had half.

I got all the way to the gym (about a 45 minute subway ride in the opposite direction from both of my apartments) only to discover I had left one sneaker at home. Whoops! I went chez maman et papa to do a 20 minute detox flow from Yoga Downloads so at least I could do something active.

8 comments:

those desserts look scrumptious! I hope you enjoyed them :)I love your lunch of butternut squash fries and a pretty salad!!! Which had some amazing ingredients by the way, missy.Yay for YogaDownloads! You know how I feel about that site and yoga :)Have a great afternoon, doll.

I sent you an email a little bit ago; but in case you don't receive it, here's basically what it said, haha:

**Just as a heads up: I will not be able to comment on blogs as often now, during this semester, due to work overload (I'm stressed already) - PLEASE know that I'm still loyally reading, but just won't have time to comment. I hope you understand!!